InputMediaPhoto

class telegram.InputMediaPhoto(media, caption=None, parse_mode=None, caption_entities=None, filename=None, has_spoiler=None, show_caption_above_media=None, *, api_kwargs=None)

Bases: telegram.InputMedia

Represents a photo to be sent.

See also

Working with Files and Media

Use In

• telegram.Bot.edit_message_media()

• telegram.Bot.send_media_group()

Parameters:

• media (str | file object | InputFile | bytes | pathlib.Path | telegram.PhotoSize) –

  File to send. Pass a file_id as String to send a file that exists on the Telegram servers (recommended), pass an HTTP URL as a String for Telegram to get a file from the Internet, or upload a new one. To upload a file, you can either pass a file object (e.g. open("filename", "rb")) or the file contents as bytes. If the bot is running in local_mode, passing the path of the file (as string or pathlib.Path object) is supported as well. Lastly you can pass an existing telegram.PhotoSize object to send.

  Changed in version 13.2: Accept bytes as input.

• filename (str, optional) –

  Custom file name for the photo, when uploading a new file. Convenience parameter, useful e.g. when sending files generated by the tempfile module.

  Added in version 13.1.

• caption (str, optional) – Caption of the photo to be sent, 0-1024 characters after entities parsing.

• parse_mode (str, optional) – Mode for parsing entities. See telegram.constants.ParseMode and formatting options for more details.

• caption_entities (Sequence[telegram.MessageEntity], optional) –

  Sequence of special entities that appear in the caption, which can be specified instead of parse_mode.

  Changed in version 20.0: Accepts any collections.abc.Sequence as input instead of just a list. The input is converted to a tuple.

• has_spoiler (bool, optional) –

  Pass True, if the photo needs to be covered with a spoiler animation.

  Added in version 20.0.

• show_caption_above_media (bool, optional) –

  Pass True, if the caption must be shown above the message media.

  Added in version 21.3.

type

'photo'.

Type:

str

media

Photo to send.

Type:

str | telegram.InputFile

caption

Optional. Caption of the photo to be sent, 0-1024 characters after entities parsing.

Type:

str

parse_mode

Optional. Mode for parsing entities. See telegram.constants.ParseMode and formatting options for more details.

Type:

str

caption_entities

Optional. Tuple of special entities that appear in the caption, which can be specified instead of parse_mode.

Changed in version 20.0:

• This attribute is now an immutable tuple.

• This attribute is now always a tuple, that may be empty.

Type:

tuple[telegram.MessageEntity]

has_spoiler

Optional. True, if the photo is covered with a spoiler animation.

Added in version 20.0.

Type:

bool

show_caption_above_media

Optional. True, if the caption must be shown above the message media.

Added in version 21.3.

Type:

bool